The GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS): Top stories concerning ancestral research in Britain, Ireland, and their diasporas, from Irish born Scottish based professional family historian, author and tutor Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit The GENES Blog if you do so. To contact me please email chrismpaton @ outlook.com.

Searchable York archbishops registers online

York's Archbishops Registers Revealed provides free access to over 20,000 images of Registers produced by the Archbishops of York, 1225-1650, in addition to a growing searchable index of names, subjects, places and organisations. The registers are a valuable, and in many cases, unexploited source for ecclesiastical, political, social, local and family history - covering periods of war, famine, political strife and religious reformation in the Archdiocese of York and the wider Northern Province.You can browse images using the options below, or search the 3109 indexed entries via the search interface. Further information, guidance and supporting material relating to the registers will be added to the site as time goes on.Pilot imaging and development, as well as the indexing of the register of Archbishop Neville (1374-1388) was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. The conservation, imaging and technical development phases of the wider York project were also generously funded in 2014-2015 by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, along with the indexing of the Sede Vacante register, 1304-1306. Indexing of the registers 1570-1650 has been funded by the Marc Fitch Fund, and will be complete by October 2016.

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Beginner's Guide to British and Irish Genealogy, A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.